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in dense fir-tree shade, while one of the finest and yellowest 
drifts of all was growing in hard fibrous loam among coarse turf 
in fullest sun ; and in the loose burnt humus opposite Satanee 
it was trying to rival C. calij vrnicum in stature. From all this 
it should result that Proud Margaret should easily, in any fair 
conditions, impart an ample share of pride to her possessor, so 
long as he remembers that, for all her resemblance in style to 
C. hirsutum, she is not a bog-plant like the Queen-Slipper, but 
a haunter of light woodland fringes in the cool, well-watered 
alps of China. Dormant crowns of this have been copiously 
sent, and I hope the Sleeping Beauty will erelong satisfactorily 
awake. [She never did, but rotted en route.] 
Cypripedium Bardolphianum sp. nov. (F 139) has not been sent. It 
is a wee running thing, with pairs of leaves, and stems about 
2 inches high, and green-segmented half-open tiny flowers, with a 
lip of brilliant, waxy gold, whelked and warted and bubukled like 
Bardolph's nose. It careers about occasionally in mossy grass in 
opener places of the mountain woodland, in such close associa- 
tion with C. luteum as often to run in and out among its stems. 
It has not only the exotic look of a wee Catasetum, but a Cata- 
setum's heavy and cloying exotic scent of aromatics. I noted 
it only once, in the Siku gorges. 
Cypripedium Farreri sp. nov. (F 155) carries us far away, towards the 
section of C. Calceolus. This is a delicate grower, sending up not 
more than two stems from a scantly-fibred root-stock. These 
stems are about 6 inches high, set with only two or perhaps 
three leaves, and carrying each a solitary large flower, with 
the greenish segments pointed and tweaked and twirled as in 
C. Calceolus, and broadly banded with dull maroon. The lip 
is the especial beauty ; it is of dense waxy gloss, and very soft 
buttery cream-colour, through which dimly show the internal 
stripes of maroon ; it is suddenly and strongly pulled in at the 
mouth, and then frills out into a series of brilliantly gleaming 
sharp little Vandykes. To crown the attractions of this meek but 
subtle charmer, Cypripedium ' Sweetlips ' exhales the most intoxi- 
cating and far-reaching fragrance of Lily of the Valley. This, I 
think, is a rare thing ; I have seen it only at one or two points 
high up in the Siku gorges — always growing in the coldest, dankest, 
moistest sides of the moist dark canons, loving a fine, cool, silty 
mould amid scant herbage, at the foot of enormous sunless lime- 
stone precipices. (It seems especially to love the base of a cool, 
shady, moist limestone rock.) Despite its rarity, crowns have 
duly been sent home, though only their ultimate condition can 
decide whether their quantity be sufficient yet for general 
distribution. [They shared the fate of C. luteum.] 
Daphne sp. (F 11) (? D. tangutica). — This is abundant all over 
South- West Kansu, from Shi-ho away to Siku, in the lowest 
alpine zone, amid very light scrub, and usually preferring a 
